Report by I. G. Smidovich, Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the National Economy, on the Reorganization of Osotop (see Protocol of the Council of People's Commissars No. 26, item 2 of December 28 [15], 1917).

On the question of the reorganization of Osotop, resolutions were proposed by Lenin and Smidovich: Smidovich's resolution received an equal number of votes for and against (+ 6 and — 6), in connection with which it was, apparently, put to a revote. Upon the second voting, the resolution proposed by Lenin was adopted.

ON THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CHIEF PEAT COMMITTEE

AMENDMENTS TO THE DRAFT DECREE ON THE ORGANIZATION 
OF THE CHIEF PEAT COMMITTEE.
April 21, 1918.

§ 1. For the purpose of general regulation of the peat industry and increase of fuel extraction, a Chief Peat Committee is established at the Fuel Section of the Supreme Council of the National Economy.

All institutions that have dealt and are dealing with peat matters, with the extraction of peat, merge with the Chief Peat Committee and immediately proceed to work out practical methods of merger.

§ 2...........

Reconnaissance and detailed surveys of peat deposits for the purpose of determining their suitability for exploitation are carried out on the initiative of both the Commissariat of Agriculture and the Chief Peat Committee, whereby both these departments must act in coordinated and joint fashion, not fragmenting the unified work.

§ 3. The composition of the Chief Peat Committee includes all specialists, representatives of the Commissariats: Agriculture with decisive vote, Labor, Transportation, Food Supply with consultative vote*.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

* In the printed text this item is formulated as follows: "The composition of the Chief Peat Committee includes a representative of the People's Commissariat of Agriculture with the right of decisive vote and representatives of the People's Commissariats: Labor, Food Supply, and Transportation with the right of consultative vote." —Ed.